I have just updated my iMac to Sequoia and consequently Xcode to the new version that also contains iOS 18.
After this update, neither Visual Studio for Mac nor Visual Studio on Windows can’t see the list of iOS simulators.
There is no update for Visual Studio; Visual Studio Code is not working for MAUI as usual. With Visual Studio for Mac I can run the application for macOS and Android but not for iOS (and the Generic Simulator doesn’t do anything.
From Visual Studio, when I try to connect my iMac, I get a different error.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I opened Xcode and agreed on all the licences. It is getting difficult and difficult to work with MAUI…
Update
Today, Microsoft released the Visual Studio 17.11.4. This version can connect to the iMac but I can’t see the list of simulators for iOS.
Do you have to update anything in the iMac?
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Answers
if you have the following system environment, there is a workaround:
Then you just need to install the Xcode beta version 16.0 from June
(Simulator 16.0 – 1033) and the coresponding command line tool (16A5171c)
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/20802#issuecomment-2356393897
There is a fix now, strangely not very easy to find:
Update the workload to version 8.0.402.1.
Works fine with XCode 16.
See: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/releases/tag/dotnet-8.0.1xx-xcode16.0-8303